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Post by moreilly on Feb 18, 2020 14:00:33 GMT -5
I'm looking at doing 5 in-ceiling speakers in a rec room that will mainly be used for music but occasional TV. I am looking to purchase 5 in-ceiling stereo speakers and currently have a UMC-1 and UPA-5. How would I go about wiring this system up and setting the UMC-1 properly so that all 5 speakers play both left and right and they all play the same thing?
Thanks in advance!
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Post by DYohn on Feb 18, 2020 16:03:06 GMT -5
Your five speakers are stereo speakers? This will potentially require TEN channels of amplification. What is their make/model?
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Post by moreilly on Feb 18, 2020 16:11:26 GMT -5
I don't have any yet. But any previous ones I've installed have been stereo so that you don't end up getting a left side and right side of the room...all speakers output both. Unless there is a way to make the UMC output both left and right to all 5 channels.
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Post by DYohn on Feb 18, 2020 16:29:45 GMT -5
I don't have any yet. But any previous ones I've installed have been stereo so that you don't end up getting a left side and right side of the room...all speakers output both. Unless there is a way to make the UMC output both left and right to all 5 channels. No, that would be "all-channel mono" I suppose. If you want 5X stereo signals, you need a whole-house distribution system that can use the stereo output of the UMC-1 and distribute it properly. I suggest looking at the company HTD. www.htd.com/Products/Whole-House-Audio?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI_-f04YXc5wIVhONkCh0l0AwYEAAYASAAEgIwl_D_BwE |
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Post by klinemj on Feb 18, 2020 16:36:10 GMT -5
I'm looking at doing 5 in-ceiling speakers in a rec room that will mainly be used for music but occasional TV. I am looking to purchase 5 in-ceiling stereo speakers and currently have a UMC-1 and UPA-5. How would I go about wiring this system up and setting the UMC-1 properly so that all 5 speakers play both left and right and they all play the same thing? Thanks in advance! Just curious...what are you trying to accomplish with the in-ceiling speakers? Will you have a standard Front Right, Front Left? Will there be a sub and center? Or, will you just have in-ceiling speakers? And, if you are going that way - why that? If it's just for general sound in the rec room, I get it. I have in-wall speakers in my master bedroom and hot tub room for general sound...not critical listening. I also use wall-mounted speakers in my great room, master bath, and kitchen. I pre-ran wire through the walls as I built the house and installed wall jacks banana plugs connect to for the wall-mounted speakers. For mine, most speaker pairs connect to speaker outs on a Sonos Connect Amp. For my great room, I have a Sonos Connect Amp speaker outs connected to a speaker switching system, and the 2 pairs of speakers connect to the switch. I can't recall if the UMC-1 has a "party mode" which plays all speakers, but if it does - you could use that. And...why 5 speakers? Why not 4...or 6...or 8? My 4 on-wall speakers in my great room fill the room well, and the main area where we listen in 16' x 29' and open 2 stories (And it also opens up into the kitchen and loft area above the kitchen/laundry room/half bath that fills the other half of the floor the great room is on). You could just run 4 channels of the UPA-5 to power 4 speakers. Mark |
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Post by klinemj on Feb 18, 2020 16:41:07 GMT -5
PS - for my wall-mounted speakers, I have some old (~20 year old) Polk R10's & Sony MB105's in some rooms and some Def Tech AW5500's in the master bath. They all fill the room nicely, as long as I don't want to really rock out loud. The in-wall speakers in the master bedroom and hot tub room are just cheapos from Home Depot, and do fine for their use.
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Post by davidl81 on Feb 18, 2020 16:54:04 GMT -5
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